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Thanks for the compliment! The biggest challenge (other than the hairpin turn you illustrate there) to routing via the farthest-north dashed line is that you'd be headed up a steep hill. From the Washington Street-Parkway intersection to the Everett Street-Parkway intersection, you're talking...

Yeah, I think I mostly doodled this as a way to reduce the amount of local truck traffic I see every time I'm on the SL3 or stuck in traffic on 1A -- traffic that's going to go up as those two trends I enumerated ramp up. You can be sure that Chelsea and Revere are going to want to let more of...

While working out something for the God Mode thread over the weekend, I got sidetracked by a realization: If you've been paying attention to some of the permitting activity for some of the various parcels along Route 1A in Revere, you can pick up the scent of two related trends: Massport could...

Putting this in the "God Mode" and not "Crazy Mode" thread as it naturally assumes a universe where we took a Parisian attitude towards heavy rail transit. Instead of continuing the Blue-Red Connector down Storrow towards Kenmore and points west, what about.....(drum roll)....turning north to...

"Revington" sure has the flavor of a caddish secondary character in a BBC murder mystery who winds up dead by the end of Act 2.

It's striking how these towers (plus the tower-on-parking-garage at Hood Park and the Union Square residential tower) are a lot more visible from random places in the region. Definitely puts the Sullivan Square/Assembly/Union Square region on the map as a "real place," as it were.

That makes sense given recession fears and the financing environment for both new biotechs and new real estate developments.

It will be fascinating to see whether this turns into a 30-year/never-to-be-realized vision now that the Federal Reserve has turned off the biotech funny money spigot.

I would argue it is, only if you want to future-proof things. 1) Sullivan Square's parking lots are going to be redeveloped sooner rather than later, and once it's done that will make it harder (logistically, bureaucratically, legally when it comes to getting the ground-lessors on board) to...

It should absolutely be on the T's medium-term plan given all the development attention the area's getting -- TBH at the rate the I-90 realignment is going, it's more likely going to be the next big growth center, not the West Station area -- and eyeballing it from the Washington Street...

And I thought that scaffolding in the middle of the two foreground buildings was just an architect getting fancy!

Shades of Dubai, for sure. Hilarious how people in that render are strolling in the stroad. That this new Egyptian capitol is so car-centric certainly says something about the car's "true" purpose, or at least its power and appeal, in the 21st century.

How dystopian. Clearly a way to get the government and the wealthy out of Cairo and prevent any more revolutions.

I am fully pro- any downtown tower that looks like it caused its structural engineers to hatch murder plots against its architects.

Yeah, the reason it's got a funny pinched base like that is because the Red Line runs underneath a corner of the tower, and the T wouldn't let them sink pilings onto the tunnel.

Has anyone else seen how the Globe has been walking back big parts of their story about T managers working remotely? The story about the capital delivery department largely doesn't seem to have changed, but the fact the deputy safety chief does, in fact, live and work in town definitely changes...

The windows-to-core distance isn't too bad, either. But I suspect the question will hinge on the math. Is there enough leaseable/sellable square-footage to pay for a conversion? The closest comp I can think of is the Boulevard a bit further up the Greenway, although it's in a more pleasant...

I wonder how well that wood planking will hold up to ketchup and mustard?

This will be especially important in helping affordable developers shrink their bottom line as much as possible, given how construction costs are going.

Tell that to the legions of kids at the new playground every day ;)